PaviElle Presents: "The SOVEREIGN Suite" An evening of music featuring Queen Drea + PaviElle French
Schedule
Fri Apr 26 2024 at 09:00 pm to Sat Apr 27 2024 at 01:00 am
UTC-05:00Location
2528 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404, United States | Minneapolis, MN
This special evening will commence with featuring the brilliant works of sound alchemist, and composer, **Queen Drea**, and then will feature PaviElle's two most recent compositions, ***SOVEREIGN (2021)***, and ***The SOVEREIGN Suite (2023)***!
**PaviElle French** is an Emmy Award-winning (2014), interdisciplinary artist/educator, who is from Rondo - a historically Black neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a recipient of the 2023 Mark Award for Social Justice/Impact Track of the Year, “Redemption,” is an American Composer Forum Artist in Residence (2022-24); a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (2021-23); a McKnight Artist Fellow (2020); and a Sage Award for Dance and Choreography recipient (2016).
PaviElle is known for such works as – A Requiem for Zula (2018) written in celebration of her Mother’s life; Sands of Time (2021) with The SPCO (commissioned by The Sands Family); a self-produced album called SOVEREIGN (2020); The SOVEREIGN Suite (2022) commissioned by The Schubert Club in connection with PaviElle’s Artist in Residence with The American Composer Forum (22-24); and has most recently released The SOVEREIGN Suite Video filmed by Peter Myers, and Soundtrack in December of 2023. PaviElle is finishing up both her ACF Residency (2022-24), and Jerome Artist Fellowship (2021-23). She is currently working with a stellar team of educators, toward a curriculum, based on her work through her SOVEREIGN Series. For more info, please check out: www.paviellefrench.com.
**Queen Drea**, a 2022 McKnight Composers Fellow, is a sound alchemist, mixing sonic potions laced with looped vocals, jagged rhythms, and found sounds. She has designed for Pillsbury House, Penumbra, and the Minnesota Children’s Theaters, dance companies, BrotherHood Dance, and Ananya Dance Theater.
Queen has created her own interdisciplinary work about depression in the Black community, a music and movement piece titled “From Black Wombs” about two sisters who have lost their parents in the revolutionary war against white supremacy, and a four-movement piece about an African creator goddess named Mawu (Lisa), associated with the Sun and Moon in African Dahomey mythology.
"I make worlds with my compositions. Glitchy vocals, guttural cries, scratchy sounds, ear-piercing ground loops, and off-kilter rhythms are what I do. Everything is intentional, yet improvisational in nature. If my compositions invoke visceral responses in the listener, then I’ve done my job."
Where is it happening?
2528 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: